Though he claims to be a UFO skeptic, former U.S. Senator for AlaskaMike Gravel is one of six former members of Congress scheduled to join a staged UFO investigation in a Washington D.C. at the end of the month. The event purports to be an inquiry into a vast government cover-up. The promoters have rented the ballroom at The National Press Club’s Washington D.C. headquarters for five days beginning April 29.

A witness recorded approximately three minutes of video showing multiple fireball UFOs in the sky above Cork, Ireland.

The witness, YouTube user Naktis Ireland, uploaded the video to the video sharing service on March 16, 2013. But the title of the video indicates the incident occurred in December 2012. The video shows multiple bright balls of light appearing out of nowhere, and drifting slowly through the sky. The low-quality video is extremely jittery, but the witness explains:

I am sorry for the quality, it was filmed with a mobile phone. Ironically I had a Cannon EOS 500D with 300mm lens at home that could of filmed in 3000×3000 but I was afraid that they would disappear by the time I got my camera as this is a very rare opportunity so instead, used a phone to record as much as possible.

There are possibilities this video is a fake. The lack of audio, for one, has led to doubts over how genuine the footage is. American horror writer Whitley Strieber posted a note on the video, on his Web site, and said he had the video analysed by three experts. Two of the three people consulted declared the tape was a hoax, while the third made no decision either way.

Astronauts working aboard International Space Station are claiming to have seen a blinking entity or object, which they said was a UFO activity that took place on 18 and 19 April 2013.

Similar episodes have been reported by Scott C. Waring, who edits UFO Sightings Daily. The reports are talking about recordings of multiple UFOs and their activities that took place on the 18th and 19th of April 2013 and were recorded on NASA live cameras.

Rob Hartland has taken more than 20,000 photos of the day-time sky in the past six months and analysed them on his computer.

It began when he was taking photos of clouds to test out a new camera when he noticed a “smudge” that, when enlarged and enhanced, “had some structure to it, suggesting it could be some sort of craft in the sky”.

He says since then he has identified a dozen different UFOs including round, square and saucer-shaped craft, posting the photos to his website wispyclouds.net for extra-terrestrial buffs and sceptics to ponder.